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Stone, rock and sand mining along the Siang river, in order to collect materials for road construction in Arunachal Pradesh, India, using Kobelco machinery. Sand mining is banned in most parts of India, but here the materials must be mined locally for the environmental cost of carriage from a faraway location would be greater. Cranes and bull dozers clear the way for a road to be construction along the Yinking-Tuting axis along the Siang or Brahmaputra river. This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The collection comprises of 150, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on 4K, 200 fps slow motion, Full HD, HDCAM 1080i High Definition, Alexa and XDCAM. Write to us for